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1946
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| << 1945 1947 >> |
Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 1946.
Contents |
[edit] Club competitions
[edit] Professional
[edit] Asia and Australia
[edit] Europe
[edit] North America
- Major League Baseball
- World Series: St. Louis Cardinals (NL) over the Boston Red Sox (AL), 4 - 3 (Details)
- Minor League Baseball
- Junior World Series: Montreal Royals (IL) over the Louisville Colonels (AA), 4 - 2 (Details)
- American Association: Louisville Colonels (Details)
- International League: Montreal Royals (Details)
- Pacific Coast League: San Francisco Seals (Details)
- Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Alijadores de Tampico
- Negro Leagues
- Negro World Series: Newark Eagles (NNL) over the Kansas City Monarchs (NAL), 4 - 3 (Details)
- Negro American League: Kansas City Monarchs (Details)
- Negro National League: Newark Eagles (Details)
- East-West Game (First Game): The team representing the East defeated the team representing the West by a score of 5 - 3 at Griffith Stadium (Details)
- East-West Game (Second Game): The team representing the West defeated the team representing the East by a score of 4 - 1 at Comiskey Park (Details)
- All-American Girls Baseball League: Racine Belles defeated the Rockford Peaches in the playoff finals, 4 - 2 (Details)
[edit] Winter Leagues
- Cuban Winter League: Cienfuegos
- Mexican Pacific Coast League: Mazatlán
- Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Senadores de San Juan
- Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Equipo Vargas
[edit] Amateur
- Japan High School Baseball Federation
- National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: canceled due to war
- National High School Baseball Championship: Naniwa High School (Osaka) defeat Kyoto Number Two Central High School (Kyoto), 2 - 0 in the championship (Details)
- National Girls Baseball League: [[]]
[edit] International competitions
- Central American Games in Barranquilla, Colombia (Details)
- Colombia (Gold); Dominican Republic (Silver); Cuba (Bronze)
[edit] Events
[edit] Culture
[edit] Literature
- The Detroit Tigers, by Frederick G. Lieb
- The Kid Comes Back, by John Tunis
[edit] Song
[edit] Film
[edit] Births
- Further information: Births in 1946
[edit] Deaths
- Further information: Deaths in 1946
[edit] Further Reading
- Bill Swank: "Strike Out: A 1946 Baseball Strike ?", The National Pastime, SABR, Number 20 (2000), pp. 16-19.
- Robert Weintraub: The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age, Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY, 2013. ISBN 978-0316205917
